In mid-August, trusted Fortnite leaker HYPEX revealed Fortnite’s planned transition from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5 had shifted from a potential Season 8 addition to a potential Season 9 addition instead.Ĭould the Windwalker Echo skin have big implications for the future of Fortnite? Epic Games In all likelihood, Windwalker Echo could live on forever as another one of the many original skins made for Battle Royale, but there are broader implications about the Outfit that are worth considering. What does Windwalker Echo mean for Fortnite? The fact that Windwalker has made her way to Fortnite might signal a shift in those plans, but there’s no way to know.
When gamers first saw the demo, many questioned if Lumen in the Land of Nanite might become a full game in the future, but Epic stated at the time that it has no plans to develop the project further. Lumen, on the other hand, is a name for a suite of tools designed to enhance Dynamic Global Illumination, which creates realistic in-game lighting through the use of an algorithm. But Marvel released the new series's first logo as part of the confirmation announcement.This Unreal Engine 5 tech demo shows the origins of Windwalker Echo.įrom its namesake, Nanite refers to the updated graphics engine’s ability to import film-quality assets with little frustration. Echo TeaserĪs filming for Echo has not yet commenced, there is no official trailer. Echo makes a lot of sense as a character to headline a spinoff, as she has multiple adventures with two other new characters on Disney+: She-Hulk and Moon Knight.
The only way to continue someone like Echo is to move them to the big screen (as is planned for Lashana Lynch’s Monica Rambeau/Photon) or their own series (like Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness). With Hawkeye planned as a single limited series, much like WandaVision, there’s no Season 2 to keep characters around. Marvel confirmed the new series was a go days before the Hawkeye premiere and introduced actor Alaqua Cox’s live-action version of the character to fans at the tail end of Episode 2. The rumors about Echo have been swirling since March 2021, when Deadline initially reported a series focused on the character in development at Disney+. How Daredevil and Kingpin will fit into the Echo series remains to be seen, but rumor has it they’re searching for Jessica Jones, whose titular Netflix series also moved to Disney+. (To be clear, fans are not inclined to believe this since it did not happen on screen.) However, despite fans eagerly pointing out Echo’s primary role as an antagonist to Daredevil, the final scene of Hawkeye suggested Maya shot Kingpin in the face as retaliation for her father’s murder, putting his return in doubt. Hawkeye already reintroduced D’Onofrio, as the New York City crime lord and the ultimate head of the Tracksuit Mafia, who Echo refers to as “uncle.” Charlie Cox’s also appeared in a brief cameo as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home that same month. On July 7, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will appear in Echo, reprising their roles as Daredevil and Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, respectively, from the Netflix Daredevil series, which moved to Disney+ in March 2022. Therefore, her Disney+ spinoff, Echo, is expected to be to Hawkeye like The Punisher was to Daredevil. She was initially introduced as a primary antagonist in the comics. Echo is one of the very few deaf characters in the Marvel pantheon. Including Ronin as a central plot point gave the series an excuse to bring in another character who also carried the Ronin mantle in the comics: Echo, whose real name is Maya Lopez.
But it also brought in a part of the character that Avengers: Endgame glossed over, Ronin. The new Hawkeye series rights that wrong, giving fans more of Barton’s kids and family life. He’s been around in multiple films but never had his story adequately centered. Disney+’s Echo is set to follow Hawkeye’s limited series in the coming year.ĭespite being one of the original six Avengers, Clint Barton is like Wanda Maximoff and Loki. But there’s one other way Hawkeye is like its Netflix predecessor: It introduced an anti-hero who will headline their own spinoff. Clint Barton and Kate Bishop are technically vigilantes, individuals bringing down organized crime and punishing the rich for using their wealth for ill-gotten gains. Like Daredevil before it, Hawkeye was about street-level superheroes, people who don’t have superpowers, just a lot of training.